Assessing China’s Situation and Challenges

Abstract

This article intends to assess China’s situation and challenges in the context of its deteriorating external and domestic environments. It focuses on the regime-maintenance initiatives of the Party regime and the prospects for political stability in China. Various types of scenarios are briefly examined on the basis of the assessment, and suggestions are offered for consideration by overseas pro-democracy groups. The stability of the Party regime is not to be under-estimated; its gradual atrophy is probable in the near future.

Keywords

• Party regime
• external and domestic environment
• political stability
• hard authoritarianism
• civil society
• atrophy